PDB: Point-Based Deformation Blending for Facial Animation Retargeting

Key points

• Mesh-agnostic facial animation retargeting transfers expressions across meshes with different structures, but preserving facial motion without surface artifacts remains challenging.1
• PDB predicts a compact set of deformed control points from a source neutral-expression pair and blending weights from the target neutral mesh.1
• Trained only with self-retargeting reconstruction supervision, PDB supports cross-identity transfer without paired cross-identity training expressions.1
• Joint evaluation of expression accuracy and local surface preservation shows reduced surface artifacts relative to the evaluated dense displacement method while retaining the intended motion.1

Sources (1)

• [1]PDB: Point-Based Deformation Blending for Facial Animation Retargeting
  arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 04:55 PM

  To address this, we present PDB, Point-Based Deformation Blending for facial animation retargeting.

  Mesh-agnostic facial animation retargeting transfers expressions across meshes with different structures, but preserving facial motion without surface artifacts remains challenging.

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